Bloglovin' and Facebook Blog Hop #9

Welcome to bloglovin' and blog hopping Thursday once again!  We are so happy to be joining together to bring you the  bloglovin' Blog Hop to help grow our blogs.   It's always a great idea to have many ways for friends to follow your blog. 
Each week we rotate one other social media to follow.  This week we are adding your blog and Facebook along with bloglovin'!  Friends can hop on over to visit your blog.   
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last week.  We hope you made some new friends! 

Please follow each hostess, and leave us a comment so we can return the follow!   Please follow you hostesses and visit other at least 3 or 4 other links!  

We would love to feature a co-host each week, so please send one of us an email if you would like to be a co-host.  We would love for you to join us!

Please link up your bloglovin' follow link.  To find your URL, just click on your follow by bloglovin' button.  Copy and past the URL link.  That's all there is to it!  

Thank you so much for joining us!  We hope you make many new friends and followers each week.  

Not mandatory, but we would love for you to share our blog hop button.    That's a great way for us to all gain new friends. 

  Hostesses:

                                                          

Becky @ Your Modern Family                            Doreen @  HouseHoneys  

                                                                       

                                          

 Kathe @ Kathe with an E                                      Kathy @ Life on Lakeshore Drive     

                                               

Suzan @ Simply Vintageous                                      Tammy @ One More Time Events   

Chevron and Emperor's Silk Chalk Paint Bench Makeover

Today I am sharing my bench makeover.  This bench has been sitting behind my couch for months now.  My daughter originally bought this for her room at an estate sale.  In the meantime, she bought a vanity for her room and decided she didn't want the bench.  It was in excellent condition, but needed a fabric update.  
I am still looking for the perfect dresser or entry table to makeover for this spot behind my couch.  Until I find that perfect piece, this bench works great there.  My daughter was with me when I picked out the fabric.  I wasn't positive I wanted to go with such a busy fabric, but it matched my Emperor's Silk Chalk Paint table perfectly.  It also definitely gave a pop of color to the dark couch.  

Here is the bench before the makeover.  If the fabric hadn't been so faded, I probably would have left it the way we bought it.  I still haven't added the buttons to the bench, yet.  I am still debating on the major task.  

To keep the legs from blending in with my brown couch, I decided to do a dry paint and wax brush using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Emperor's Silk.  I am amazed at the amount of projects I have finished using that one can of paint, and there is still paint left.  It may be more expensive, but it goes a very long way.  

Mr. Ed loves nothing better than to start a new project.  He is always so much help as you can see!  

I am still working on getting the perfect setting on my new camera.  One of my top priorities for my summer vacation which starts in less than two weeks!!   I wanted some of the brown to show through the paint, so I poured a small amount of paint on a piece of wax paper.  I mixed Annie Sloan clear wax with the paint and very sparingly brushed it on.   I only added one coat, and let it dry overnight.  

Here is the bottom of the seat after I recovered it.  It was a pain to pull all of those buttons out.  I didn't want to damage them in case I decide to use them later on the bench.

 

Here is a close up of the legs after I gave them a light coat of paint.  I didn't want too much red with the busy fabric. 

The hardest part of using the chevron print was to make sure I had it perfectly straight.  The corners are not perfect, but that's the best I could do without pulling out the needle and thread.  

After months of looking at this unfinished project, I am so glad I can mark it off my to-do list.      I have just enough fabric left to make a few chevron pillows for some chairs that are near the bench.  Chevron is definitely the way to go if you want to give a bold look to a lifeless piece of furniture.  It definitely catches your eye the minute you walk in the door.  

The bench makeover totally wore Mr. Ed out.  Nothing better than a nap after completing a project.  :)  
Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my new bench.  I always love your visits, and your comments make my day!  Have a wonderful week!  
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Share Your Creations at A Bouquet of Talent Linky Party #35

Welcome to the party, friends!!  I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  A very special Happy Mother's Day to you wonderful mothers!  I haven't had time to get the Pick of the Bunch finished!  I will post those tomorrow!  
I have had a wonderful day with my precious daughter and hubby!  My daughter has to work tomorrow after church, so she celebrated Mother's Day with me today.   Tomorrow I get to celebrate again with my son.  
This is an extra special Mother's Day for me, because we finally received my mother's results from her scan. It is contained to just the one node, and they found nothing else!  It was such a relief to get that wonderful news after almost a month of waiting!   It was most definitely an answer to prayers.    Thank you so much for yours prayers!!  I also visited with my mother and my mother-in-love today!  
 Thank you so much for partying at A Bouquet of Talent each week.  Check back tomorrow for those Pick of the Bunch features!!

Most Viewed Link last week:

Createinspire had the most viewed link last with her awesome Drawer Planter Boxes!  What an awesome and creative project.  I know they have been a hit on so many blogs this week, because I have seen these beauties featured everywhere!  Congrats, Lisa, for having the most viewed link!  



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Blog Hop Time Bloglovin' and Pinterest

Welcome to bloglovin' and blog hopping Thursday once again!  We are so happy to be joining together to bring you the  bloglovin' Blog Hop to help grow our blogs.   It's always a great idea to have many ways for friends to follow your blog. 
Each week we rotate one other social media to follow.  This week we are adding your blogs and Pinterest along with bloglovin'!  Friends can hop on over to visit your blog.   
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last week.  We hope you made some new friends! 

Please follow each hostess, and leave us a comment so we can return the follow!   Please follow you hostesses and visit other at least 3 or 4 other links!  

We would love to feature a co-host each week, so please send one of us an email if you would like to be a co-host.  We would love for you to join us!

Please link up your bloglovin' follow link.  To find your URL, just click on your follow by bloglovin' button.  Copy and past the URL link.  That's all there is to it!  

Thank you so much for joining us!  We hope you make many new friends and followers each week.  

Not mandatory, but we would love for you to share our blog hop button.    That's a great way for us to all gain new friends. 

                           Hostesses:

                                                          

Becky @ Your Modern Family                            Doreen @  HouseHoneys  

                                                                       

                                          

 Kathe @ Kathe with an E                                      Kathy @ Life on Lakeshore Drive     

                                               

Suzan @ Simply Vintageous                                      Tammy @ One More Time Events   

                                   Guest Hostess:   Deanna @ Gloriously Made

              

Please make sure you link your bloglovin' URL link in the first section,  your blog in the second, and your Google+ URL in the last section.   It makes it so much faster for your new friends to find you!  

Mother's Day Organizer Part Two

Here is the Part Two of the Mother's Day recipe and magazine clippings album that I promised a few weeks ago.  If you missed Part One of the inside of the album, you can see that post here.  I shared how I covered the album, and what I included on the inside to organize favorite articles and clippings.  

  I made the flowers from the same fabric that I used to cover the album.  To make sure I had the exact color white for the flowers, I simple used the back side of the printed fabric. 

To make the flowers, I cut 4 inch wide strips of fabric about 12 inches long.  I used a slightly larger piece of fabric for the flower on the bottom.  

Fold the fabric piece in half and very tightly sew the sides together. 

 I continually  gathered the fabric on the thread as I sewed the piece together. 

It begins to form the rosette as the fabric is bunched together.

Once I reached the end of the fabric, I stitched the end piece together and tied off the thread.

I also put a few stitches in the middle of the flower to hold it together and keep its shape.  

I glued the flowers onto the album using my glue gun.  Here is what they looked like before I added the buttons.  

I have a huge collection of my grandmother's old buttons, so I dug through those until I found two that worked with the fabric.  That just gave it an extra special touch!  

Here is a close up of the first flower.  I wish I could have found two of those buttons.  

I had to go with this button for the second flower.  All of those blue buttons, and this was the only other one I could find that worked!  

I thought it still needed something else, so I added the blue ribbon.  I also placed a piece of scrapbooking applique on the ribbon.  My daughter said the applique needs to go!  It's there to stay unless I find something else to replace it.   LOL

Here is one more look at the inside of the album.  I added many clear protectors to each section.  I have some blue folders  to put in the back for extra storage.  

More than a week later, I am finally sharing the final project.  I am so  sorry it has taken me this long to get it posted.   Have a wonderful week, and thank you so much for stopping by for a visit! 

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Let's Party at A Bouquet of Talent Linky Party #34

Party time once again!!  Can't wait to see what you've created this week.  I am loving all of the spring decor and the flowers in bloom.  You always outdo yourselves each week. 
I want to make a quick apology to my friends who follow by email!  I have no idea why on several occasions now, Feedburner has decided to send out an old post.  I always get one email, and there was an old Pick of the Bunch from a few weeks ago.  So sorry about that!!  
You can check out the Pick of the Bunch Fabulous Features from last week's Bouquet of Talent here.  


Most viewed link last week:

The most viewed link last week was the fabulous and amazing Spring  Butterfly Tablescape by my dear friend Tammy at One More Time.  She did a fabulous job!  Congrats, Tammy for having the most viewed link last week.  I love those chairs.  Oh, and did I  mention she won first place with this awesome tablescape!

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Fabulous Features Pick of the Bunch #33

Happy Saturday and welcome to the Pick of the Bunch Fabulous Features!  I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.  There's some huge estate sales this weekend, and I plan on checking out a few of them.  A few weeks ago, I found a gorgeous set of nesting tables that I'm working on.  Can't wait to share those with you.  I'm  almost finished re-doing a bench that my daughter originally bought for her room, but decided she didn't want it.  I hope to post that this weekend.  I'm just trying to keep myself busy as we wait for my mother's scan on Monday.  

Thank you so much for sharing with us at the party last week!  There were so many awesome, beautiful, creative and yummy posts you don't want to miss!  

                                

Don't forget to entry the special Mother's Day Keurig Coffee Maker Giveaway  here!

Now for our features!  You can check out all of the awesome links from last week's  Bouquet of Talent here.     I hope to see you at the party tonight!!   

Please grab a button if you were featured! 


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Beautiful Features:



Un Fiore di Crila shared a gorgeous way to display flowers!  So pretty!  You don't want to miss a single post in this awesome blog.  So inspiring!!! 

                

Oh, I love what the Electric Red Barn did with these silver salt shakers!  What a great use for those single shakers!  

                   

Small Fine Print created these beautiful Moroccan Votive Candle Lanterns.  I love these!!  




My precious friend, Natasha, from Natasha in OZ had the second highest views with her coffee bar station.  Check out her awesome post loaded with lots of coffee bar inspirations



This Lemon Sugar Scrub by Krysta Steen would make a fabulous Mother's Day gift.  I can't wait to make this!



I love this DIY Portable Fire Feature by With A Blast!   How fun to add to your deck or patio!



Night Owl Corner shared her adorable birthday party for her three year old!  Check out all of the fun and creative idea!




Art and Sand shared a gorgeous post filled with ways to use fresh flowers.  The photos are so pretty!

               Delicious Features:

         

Something Sweet Winnie Blog shared her fabulous recipe for Strawberry Crumble Bars!  This looks so delicious!  




A Peek into My Paradise  shared these yummy Lemonhead cookies!  They look amazing!  




The Best Blog Recipes shared this fabulous Orange Pushup Smoothie!  YUMMY!!


Congratulations to everyone who was featured!  I am so thrilled you party with us, and I thank you so much for sharing your awesome talent with us!!  Have a fabulous, crafty weekend!